Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1,763, John Goodrich, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Goodrich, John
S. 1763
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8190 West Tennessee
John Goodrich Jr
of Davidson Co in the State of Tennessee who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Spencer of the Regt commanded by Col Stevens in the Virginia line for 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Mar 1833 and sent to Hon G. H. Hill Pasholl Tenn.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $66.66 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 16.66 $83.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by No Cromwell Clerk, Book b Vol. 9 Page 149

State of Tennessee District of West Tennessee & County of Dawson. 3
On this 18 th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Hon ble the Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the District aforesaid John Goodrich a Resident of said County & District aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States as follows to wit. He first entered as a minute man under Captain Paine and afterward, served under Captain Joseph Spencer in the same service, he first went into service on the 22 nd day of September 1775 and continued some in that town six months he marched from the Colpepper County Virginia to Williamsburg & from there to Suffolk

thence to the great Bridge about two hundred miles from Norfolk where we had an engagement on I think the 9 th day of December 1775. We were there commanded by General Woodford of the Regulars my Capt there was Joseph Spencer & my Col was Edward Spencer Stevens of Culpepper County Virg a . I then resided in Orange County Virginia & we were disbanded and got home on the 3 rd day of March 1776.
In June 1776 I again went out in the above stated service a minute man & served two months on that tour as went to Fredericksburg and down the Rappahannock reconnoitring the Country We were engaged on that tour two months when we were again allowed to return home I served this tour under the same Captain as the former one but our Col was Col Oliver Tolles which was the last service performed by me as a minute man.
The next tour I substituted in place of our James Smith both of us of Orange County Virginia and served

two months when I was again disbanded on this occasion we went to Richmond & from that to Hobbs Hills to guard the River this service was rendered in the year, 1781 our Genl was Larson & Col. Matthews was our Col Genl Lafayette was also with us part of the time we went down as long as Williamsburg during this tour, we had no general engagement during this tour.
We do not think he ever rec d any discharge, nor does he know of any person by whom he can prove said service nor has he any documentary evidence upon the subject.
The following questions were proposed by the Court & answered as follows.
Quest 1. When in what year and place born.
Ans r . I was born in Louisa County in the State of Virginia 11th of January 1757.
Quest 2. Have you any record of your age & if so where is it.
Ans r . My age is recorded in Louisa County in the Episcopal Church I have

no other record except a memorandum made by myself.
Quest 3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, & where do you now live. Ans. I lived in Orange County Virginia when called into service I afterwards moved to Wilkes County North Carolina from thence to Guilford & from that to the State of Tennessee where I have resided in Rutherford & Davidson counties upwards of twenty years & live in the latter county at this time.
Quest 4. How were you called into service did you volunteer and you drafted or were you a substitute if a substitute for whom.
Ans. I first entered the service as a minute man in which character I served two years & afterwards substituted in place of James Smith.
Quest 5th State the names of some of your regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental & militia regiments as you can recollect

year aforesaid.
N. A. M c namara
John Goodrich Esq.
(Mr James Whittett
a clergyman residing in the County of Randolph & State of Tennessee & Herbert Towns William Bailes Charles Hays & Scott Mcnamara residing in the same state & county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Goodrich who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that as believed him to be seventy five years of age, that he is reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution in the neighbourhood where he lives & as concur in that opinion
Known to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Charles Hays James Whittett
N. A. M c namara
Herbert Towns
William Bailes
As the Court do hereby declare
their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James Whittett who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the

and the general circumstances of your service Ans. For the answer to this the Court refers to the applicants previous statement which is the same.
Ques. 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, if so by whom was it given & what has become of it.
Ans. I do not think I ever rec d a discharge.
He states the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for civility & their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Asp. Herbert Jones Esq., Charles Hays William Vail the Hon ble John Bell representatives from this district James Collenworth & many others
Said applicant hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Known to & subscribed the day &

ly of Davidson & State of Tennessee and Heathensworth that William Charles Herbert Jones Charles Hays & who has also signed said certificates and residents of the State & County aforesaid and are credible persons & that their statements are entitled to Credibility.
John McLean
John McNairy
I Nathaniel A. McNairy Clerk of the United States Courts for the District of West Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of John Goodrich for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 18th day of September A.D. 1832
N. A. McNairy Clerk

State of Tennessee Davidson County } Be it known that at a County Court Session held for the County aforesaid, at the Court house in the Town of Nashville on the 7 day of March 1837 per- sonally appeared in Open Court Herbert Jones & assured Campbell
all of the County of Davidson aforesaid and upon their oaths have satisfactorily proved to the Court here that Rebecca Goodrick was the Lawful wife of the late John Goodrick Sen. of said County deceased, and that her said Husband died on the 10 th day of June 1836 and that at the time of his death he had been placed on the roll of Revolutionary Pensioners of the United States, Under the Act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832 and further, that he was the Identical John Goodrick Sen. named in an original certificate in his possession on the day of his death, and which is here shown to the Court, and of which the following is a true copy
War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 th June 1832 John Goodrick Sen. of the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Thirty three dollars & Thirty three cents per Annum during his natural life commencing on the 1 st March 1831 and payable semi annually on the 1 st March & 1 st September in every year Given at the War Office of the United States

this 15 th day of March 1833 signed Luv Cap near Lay of War
And they the said Harbert Towns & Albert Campbell
Further Testify that the said John Goodrich Sen. deceased was intitled to a Pension of at the rate Thirty three dollars & Thirty three cents per Annum from the 1 st day of March 1836 to which time he was last paid, to the 15 th day June 1836 when he died, On account of Services Rendered the United States during the Revolutionary War, and that at the time of his death he resided in Davidson County aforesaid, and had resided there for the space of between Twenty & thirty years past and previous thereto he resided in
A. Campbell Pres.
Harbert Towns Pres.
State of Tennessee, Davidson County.
I Smith Bridle clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that Albert G Campbell & Harbert Townes swore to the foregoing statement & subscribed their names thereto, in open court, on the 7 th day of March 1837.
And I further certify that Harbert Townes whose name is subscribed to the within certificates is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the county & state aforesaid, duly commissioned & qualified, and as such full faith & credit are due & ought to be given to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court at office in Nashville this 15 th day of April AD 1837. Smith Bridle.

State of Tennessee } Be it known that before me Davidson County } Herbert Jones a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Rebecca Goodrich and made oath in due form of Law that she is the Identical Rebecca Goodrich named in the foregoing proof before the Court as the widow of the late John Goodrich Sen. deceased who was at the time of his death a Revolution- ary Pensioner of the United States & the Identical person named in the Pension Certificate of which the foregoing is a true Copy, and that all of the facts stated in the foregoing proof before the Court are true to the best of my knowledge & belief, Sworne to Subscribed to.
before me 4 day March 1837 Herbert Jones for sd county
8th Pl 1837 Herbert Jones for sd county Rebecca Goodrich mark
Know all men by these presents that I Rebecca Goodrich of Davidson County & State of Tennessee the lawful widow of John Goodrich Sen. de- ceased of said County & State aforesaid a Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and ap- point Charles Hays my true and lawful attorney for me in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Nashville State of Tennessee all of the Pension due me in right of my late Husband John Goodrich Sen. from the 11th day of March 1836 the term when he was last paid to the 15th day June 1836 the date of his death Witness my hand Seal this 11th day of March 1836  April 1837
Test Herbert Jones Jane T Goodwin
{ Rebecca X Goodrich mark

State of Tennessee } Be it known that on the Davidson County } 11 th day of March  April 1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Rebecca Goodrich named to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be her act and In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Harbert Bowers Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee } Be it known on the Davidson County } 4 day of March  April 1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Charles
Hays the Attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale transfer or Mortgage of the Pension or any of Pension therein authorized to be Received by him. Sworn to subscribed to before me the date above
Charles Hays
Harbert Bowers Justice of the Peace Jane T. Goodwin,
I certify that the several erasures in the foregoing affidavit was made by me before signing the same in the words (March)
Harbert Bowers
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Union Bank of Tennessee,
NASHVILLE,
15 April 1837
Received of
John M. Bap Nine
Agent for paying Pensions,
dollars Thirty one cents,
being for
Three
months and
Eleven
days pension due me as the
widow of John Goodrick deceased
Pensioner under the act of June 1832 from
the 4
day of March 1836
to the
15 th
day of June
1836
for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Dollars 9. 31
Rebecca Goodrick by her attorney in fact Charles Hays

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McL. Burn
January 3, 1924
Mrs. Penelope J. Allen 4301 Alabama Ave. St. Elmo, Tenn.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 1763, it appears that John Goodrich was born January 11, 1757, in Louisa County, Virginia.
While residing in Orange County, Virginia, he enlisted September 3, 1775, and served six months as minute-man in Captain Paine's and Joseph Spencer's Companies, Colonel Edward Steven's Virginia Regiment.
He enlisted in June 1776 and served two months as minute-man in Captain Joseph Spencer's Company, Colonel Oliver Towles. Virginia Regiment.
He enlisted in 1781 and served two months in Colonel Matthew's Virginia Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 18, 1832, while residing in Davidson County, Tennessee, age 75 years.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner

312 ROOMS 312 BATHS
H. R. & C. R. CANNON, PROPRIETORS
Zimmermann FIREPROOF EUROPEAN
HOTEL
CECIL
J. F. DEJARNETTE, MANAGER
ATLANTA, GA.
Nov 14, 1923
Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kind ly send me the pension record for Revolutionary service of John Goodrich, m c , a private in the Virginia line, who received a pension for his services in March 13, 1833, aged 77 years. He was a resident of Davidson County - Tennessee.

312 ROOMS 312 BATHS
H. R. & C. R. CANNON PROPRIETORS
FIREPROOF EUROPEAN
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CECIL
J. F. DEJARNETTE, MANAGER
ATLANTA, GA.
Thanking you for your courtesy, I am, Very truly Yours.
(Mrs.) Penelope J. Allen
4301 Alabama Ave., St. Elmo, Tennessee.

New York
1763
✓ INVALID.
File No. 1763
John Goodrich Miss M. L. L.
Act: June 7, 1892.
Index: — Vol. 12 , Page 1441
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1924 Jan. 3. Sent to P.J. Allen.
See.

Adin L.
Lived for 10 months -
Not yet well enough
Discontinued in some
Will.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of J. Goodrich which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? X IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? no VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
☞ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

No 82 Rebecca Goodrick of John Goodrick son. Rev. 7 June 1832
4 Mar. 1836 to 15 th June 1836
Cash $9.31
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OFFICE BANK UNITED STATES, NASHVILLE,
Received of Agent for paying Pensions, dollars  cents, being for months and  days Pension due to me as from the day of  to the  day of for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
OFFICE BANK UNITED STATES, NASHVILLE,
Received of Agent for paying Pensions, dollars  cents, being for months and  days Pension due to me as from the day of  to the  day of for which I have signed duplicate receipts.

Payments to be made at Nashville by the Presd U S Br Brk Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of
W. Tennessee
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Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book D Vol. 9 Page 149 by Geo. Cromwell Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Goodrich Sr. of the State  of Tennessee  who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army
is entitled to receive — Thirty-three — dollars and Thirty-three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 16 th day of March — one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three .
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.